John McCreesh wrote:
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We are making the assumption that visitors are ready to start a 70-80Mb download immediately with no further persuasion, and they need large visual clues to help them to do so. There is nothing to tell visitors *what* OOo is, or *who* OOo are.
Wrong and wrong.
* "About Us" and "About the Product" have prominent locations.
I repeat: there is nothing on the home page to tell visitors *what* OOo is, or *who* OOo are.
* Whe have a large and visible array of links right above the Download box for people to learn more about each component of OOo.
Can someone please make them clickable then so it's obvious to a 'stupid user' (me)?
* Downloading *is* the most important objective of the home page.
> And the section is prominent because that's the first priority.
Downloading is the most important objective of the *download* page. The most important objective of the home page is to attract the visitor's attention and encourage/facilitate them to move deeper into the site. That's why I'm wary of links to external sites: the visitor clicks on a link and we've lost them.
I suggest reading this article:
and I believe my comments are in line with it? I don't want visitors to have to click on another link to find out *what* OOo is or *who* we are. I don't trust visitors not to 'drift away' to other sites.
This page really was very carefully laid out to correspond to the priorities that were posted and discussed at length.
I appreciate the work that's gone in to this design. I know how frustrating it can be trying to produce a good design, and the double frustration of making sure it works in all browsers.
Now that the web project has got that far, it's time to open the discussion to the wider community to make sure the content is appropriate too.
John
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